1903 The Complete Buffet Guide or How to Mix All Kinds of Drinks by V.B. Lewis

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'toasts and A fter Dinn.er Speeches

Here's a health to the Future; A sigh for the Past; We can love and rem.ember, And hope to the last, And for all the base lies That the almanacs hold While there's love in the heart, We can n ever grow old.

Here's to the women, present and past, And to those to come hereafter; But if one comes here after us, We'll have no cause for laughter. Here's to the white man's wife– The white man's aid, But not his burden.

Come, come, good wine is a good, familiar creature, if it be well used.

THE SUMMER GIRL. She'll learn to smoke a cigarette And drink a glass of wine ; She'll get a breakfast, lunch or tea, An appetite to dine; She'll flirt, in dress decolette, She'll think a kiss no sin; . And that's the kind of a summer girl– Alas ! that seems to win. The Cynic.